The first round (4 March 2010, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.), "Art for all", revolves around finding out what conditions must exist for contemporary art to arise and how it finds its way to the people. The following day (5 March 2010, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.) looks at "Art above all" and aims to answer the question of art's anchoring within society. The focus is on art itself and, as Schmid notes, on "even more communication work, precisely in view of the current, often confusingly diverse artistic output".
The ARTIMA art meeting 2010
Host: Karlheinz Schmid
Thursday, 4 March 2010: ART FOR ALL - Graphic art, photography, and multiples
2:00 p.m.: Klaus Staeck, artist/publisher, Heidelberg/Berlin
2:20 p.m.: Axel Hecht, author/juror, Hamburg
2:40 p.m.: Frank-Thomas Gaulin, gallery owner, Lübeck/Berlin
3:00 p.m.: Jürgen Klauke, artist, Cologne
3:20 p.m.: Carol Johnssen, gallery owner, Munich
3:40 p.m.: Klaus Gerrit Friese, gallery owner/BVDG Chairman, Stuttgart
Friday, 5 March 2010: ART ABOVE ALL - Painting and sculpture
2:00 p.m.: Friedhelm Mennekes, author, Frankfurt
2:20 p.m.: Helmut Friedel, museum director, Munich
2:40 p.m.: Cornelia Schleime, painter, Berlin
3:00 p.m.: Birgit Rolfes, insurance expert, Mannheim
3:20 p.m.: Willi Siber, sculptor, Biberach/Riß
3:40 p.m.: Timm Ulrichs, artist, Hanover
By the way: "Berlin is looking forward to Karlsruhe", says Anemone Vostell, director of the Regional Association of Berlin Galleries (LVBG). She has completed the plans for her association's presentation at the coming art KARLSRUHE. Sponsored by the Berlin Senate and selected by a competent jury, 14 art dealers from the Spree will now be presenting their works in Baden for the second time under the title of art from berlin. Besides three repeat appearances, the "Berliner Block", as art curator Ewald Karl Schrade calls the project, features eleven newcomers, among them Maud Piquion, Seitz and Partner, and Läkemäker.